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Achieving those goals is made easier with the Zacks Style Scores, a unique set of guidelines that rates stocks based on popular investing methodologies, namely value, growth, and momentum. The Style Scores can help you narrow down which stocks are better for your portfolio and which ones can beat the market over the long-term.
Is This 1 Momentum Stock a Screaming Buy Right Now?
Momentum investors, who live by the saying "the trend is your friend," are most interested in taking advantage of upward or downward trends in a stock's price or earnings outlook. Utilizing one-week price change and the monthly percentage change in earnings estimates, among other factors, the Momentum Style Score can help determine favorable times to buy high-momentum stocks.
Kimberly-Clark (KMB)
Incorporated in Delaware in 1928, Kimberly-Clark Corporation is principally engaged in the manufacture and marketing of a wide range of consumer products around the world. The company sells its products to supermarkets; mass merchandisers; drugstores; warehouse clubs; variety and department stores; retail outlets; manufacturing, lodging, office building, food service, and health care establishments; and high volume public facilities.
KMB sits at a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy), holds a Momentum Style Score of B, and has a VGM Score of B. The stock is up 6% and up 1.9% over the past one-week and four-week period, respectively, and Kimberly-Clark has gained 13.7% in the last one-year period as well. Additionally, an average of 2,236,506.50 shares were traded over the last 20 trading sessions.
Momentum investors also pay close attention to a company's earnings. For KMB, one analyst revised their earnings estimate upwards in the last 60 days, and the Zacks Consensus Estimate has increased $0 to $7.51 per share for 2025. KMB boasts an average earnings surprise of 12.5%.
KMB should be on investors' short list because of its impressive earnings fundamentals, a good Zacks Rank, and strong Momentum and VGM Style Scores.
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